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Padre Pio's prayer groups are coordinated from their headquarters in the Casa Sollievo della Sofferenza. [132] The prayer groups kept growing during Padre Pio's life and after his death. In 1968 at Padre Pio's death, there were around 700 groups, with 68,000 members in 15 countries. [145]
San Giovanni Rotondo was the home of Saint Pio of Pietrelcina from 28 July 1916 until his death on 23 September 1968. The Padre Pio Pilgrimage Church was built in devotion to the saint and dedicated on 1 July 2004.
Giuseppe "Pino" Puglisi (Italian pronunciation: [ˈpiːno puʎˈʎiːzi], Sicilian: [pʊɟˈɟiːsɪ]; 15 September 1937 – 15 September 1993) was a Roman Catholic priest in the rough Palermo neighbourhood of Brancaccio.
The first document dedicated to a Palmarian Papal canonisation proclaimed by the Palmarian Church was that of Padre Pio in the Tenth Document of Pope Gregory XVII on 12 September 1978. [155] [76] Many more canonisations have taken place since, particularly between 1978 and 1980, mostly within the Papal documents of Pope Gregory XVII. [76]
On September 23, 2013, the feast day of Saint Padre Pio of Pietrelcina, the main parish church was dedicated to God by Cardinal Gaudencio Rosales. Present at the dedication was Ermelindo di Capua, the only surviving Italian Capuchin priest who worked closely with and took care of Padre Pio for three years before Pio's death. Capua (d.
In the late 1940s, the name of Saint Padre Pio (1887–1968) was attached to a letter endorsing the Three Days of Darkness; but the letter was in fact written by the "Council of Heroldsbach," a religious cult in Germany later outlawed by the Vatican. [5]
Pope Pius X (Italian: Pio X; born Giuseppe Melchiorre Sarto; [a] 2 June 1835 – 20 August 1914) was head of the Catholic Church from 4 August 1903 to his death. Pius X is known for vigorously opposing modernist interpretations of Catholic doctrine, and for promoting liturgical reforms and Thomist scholastic theology.
Pio Bruno Pancrazio Lanteri, or simply Bruno Lanteri (12 May 1759 – 5 August 1830), was a Catholic priest and founder of the religious congregation of the Oblates ...